Re: Move unused buffers to freelist - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim Nasby
Subject Re: Move unused buffers to freelist
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Msg-id 519E873D.5000406@nasby.net
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In response to Re: Move unused buffers to freelist  (Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Move unused buffers to freelist
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On 5/14/13 2:13 PM, Greg Smith wrote:
> It is possible that we are told to put something in the freelist that
> is already in it; don't screw up the list if so.
>
> I don't see where the code does anything to handle that though.  What was your intention here?

IIRC, the code that pulls from the freelist already deals with the possibility that a block was on the freelist but has
sincebeen put to use. If that's the case then there shouldn't be much penalty to adding a block multiple times (at
leastwithin reason...)
 
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